CONTROL OF THE PACIFIC.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 14399, 6 January 1911, Page 3

CONTROL OF THE PACIFIC.

A GILBERTIAN PROPOSAL. NO CHANGE REQUIRED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Jan. 6, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 6. Tho Daily Telegraph commenting on the Auckland Star’s arguments in favour of removing the headquarters of the High Commissioner of the Pacific to Auckland, says: “As far as we know, no proposal for the change has been made by authority or with authoritative sanction, but why make tho transfer? The place to govern from ie in tho country governed. It is a reasonable aspiration which in future may bloom into actuality that tho Commonwealth may have a Southern Pacific Hegemony comprising all the islands outside New Zealand’s jurisdiction, but oven in that event the islands would have to bo administered from within. A High Commissioner living in Sydney or Auckland and making periodical visits to his Island domain would cut such a figure as occasionally appears to tho public entertainment in Gilbcrtian opera.”